H@rd Truths By GHK Lall – Excellency Ali Outdid Them All

Jul 14, 2023 Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column

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Kaieteur News – America needed 100 hours of Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait in 1990.  The mighty Israelis required 90 minutes at Entebbe to free its hostages in 1978.  In 2023, Guyana’s President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali deftly dispatched with the state of this country in the mere matter of 78 minutes.  If I were to assign one minute for every hour that it took America’s armed forces and Lt. Gen Schwarzkopf in the desert, Guyana’s almighty Ali outmatched, outpaced, outdid, and outflew the vaunted American Eagle, this side of the Tropics.  It must be the advance of technology.  Perhaps, it has something to do with the size of the brain, the packaging of words crammed into canned formations. I wonder if Exxon used its good offices to recruit the Pentagon to guide Guyana’s Head-of-State as to what must come out of his head.

Thanks for nothing, Mr. President.  This is the sorcery of Dr. Transparency, his imperial majesty Excellency Ali.  For a man, a national leader, who could be garrulous with the frivolous, 78 minutes was nothing if not what is mischievous.  Something has gone to the President’s head; perhaps, it can be traced to who whispers in his ear, what Exxon told to him that has to be said, done.  C’mon, Dr. President, one reporter per media house?  In this democracy, and place of free expression, one question only, Mr. President?  I detect presidential muzzling of the right of the people to know what is happening in this “fastest growing economy in the world.”  Tell the world, I exhort respectfully Dr. President about all the hungry people in Guyana, and those who can’t buy the fare at the markets, maybe don’t even have the bus fare to get there.  Indeed, Excellency Ali Guyana’s Gross Domestic Product has tripled, but an illiterate could have done the same with what is below the seabed, it is on autopilot, sir.  As the economy is tripling Mr. President, how and why is almost half of the population in Guyana struggling?

I hear or read about GDP registering these astronomical numbers (and they are), but the secret, sir, is where does upwards of 90% of it goes?  In whose hands, Mr. President, if not those fabulous few, the less than 1% of the people in this country?

President Ali, the man markedly developing a gift for the gab, made doubly sure that his spin would grip and drip in his choice of emcee for the royal occasion.  I wonder what Dr. Cheddi is thinking Dr. Ali (wherever he is, political or dental heaven), given the bestialities that were his lot from such human resources.  I notice that the president’s people got slack and lazy, for there were their cut and paste jobs now regurgitated by the presidential academician turned statistician.  Statistics is a dime a dozen, and can be rented from U-Haul or haul your you know what…  President Ali was in full Ryder Truck form, in taking Guyanese for a ride.  ‘Prudent fiscal management’ and ‘progressive policies’, lord, why even in a donkey cart economy, the donkey could be discarded, given the super steroids Guyana has strived on in the last few years. In other words, any jackrabbit, any joker, any jack-in-the box government couldn’t do worse, given the presence of what the Arabs call the ‘black blood of Allah.’  Thanks be to God.

For President Ali’s enlightenment, the world knows that his so-called progressive policies are what strengthen the stranglehold of Exxon and Herr Alistair Routledge over Guyana.  His prudent fiscal management is what empowers foreign storm troopers to swagger around like gothic medieval masters over this dark sea of oil called Guyana.  We have gone from the land of many waters to the land of many slaves, arguably the greatest many serfs to be found anywhere, including in paranormal domains.

We have a government and a political leadership that limit its appearances before the people, then limit them regarding when they can open their mouths and then how often.  One question only, Mr. President?  Is that the best that the presidential gastric system, the presidential cranial capacity, can handle in Guyana’s glorious revolution, the span of 78 minutes?  And for those who have persisted before with inconvenient and uncomfortable questions, there always is the Gestapo outfit, PPP owned, controlled, and protected, online predators going by the lascivious name of Live in Guyana to maim them.  Perhaps, both His Excellency Ali and the fabled emcee of Guyana’s political antiquity can stoop to give Guyanese an answer to that issue.

The more impressive (in his own mind) that President Ali believes he is, the more evasive, the more destructive, he strikes citizens to be whenever it is the interests of the Guyanese people that are involved.  A word of appreciation is given to the President for not being his usual aggressive and abrasive side this time around.  One hour and eighteen minutes were all that 750,000 Guyanese merited.  Thanks for the time, Mr. President.  A word of objection for the patronization and the paternalism.  Guyana’s President Ali learns at the feet of the best.  Guyana’s Ali learns from America’s Alistair Routledge on how to chain Guyanese to the feet of Exxon.  If that was a genuine national press conference, then all Guyanese have been condemned to Exxon’s fossil furnace.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of this newspaper and its affiliates.)

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